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  Gorgias, 6–8

  Greek philosophy, 3, 6, 10, 40, 50–51, 114, 142, 156–160, 182, 200

  haiku, 43

  hallucinations, 84–88, 96, 169, 176

  Hamlet (attributed to Shakespeare), 169

  Harman, Gilbert, 75

  Harwood, Robin, 121

  The Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 58

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 38–42, 45

  Hegelian dialectic, 38–42, 45

  heuristics, 172–73, 175, 180

  Hitler, Adolf, 177–78

  compared with Trump, 27, 54, 86–88, 96

  Hobbes, Thomas, 9

  How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (Adams), 47, 51

  Hume, David, 22, 53

  humor, 4, 21, 40, 47–54, 72, 104, 159, 186, 192, 197

  hypnosis, 5–6, 64, 176

  hypothesis, 3, 8, 10–11, 55, 76, 170, 178, 201–04

  ignorance, 41, 93, 131–32, 172–75, 182, 192, 200

  immigration, 18, 90–95, 117

  induction, problem of, 22

  induhviduals, 113–120, 124

  inference to the best explanation, 75

  infrastructure, 92

  intentional wrongness, 19–20, 32–33

  irony, 40–45, 51, 54

  irrational, humans as, 11–13, 22–23, 53–54, 71–72, 86, 96–99, 105, 109, 115, 129–136, 141, 144, 163, 169–176, 177–183, 187

  Jobs, Steve, 15

  The Joy of Work (Adams), 19, 44–45, 48, 71, 73, 75, 77–80, 155, 157–163, 169, 199, 209

  Kant, Immanuel, 21–22, 53, 66, 162–65

  karoshi, 157

  Kasparov, Garry, 219

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 41–44, 128

  kireji, 43

  KKK, 22

  Kluge (Marcus), 171

  Kuhn, Thomas S., 4

  Le Bon, Gustave, 178

  Lil’ Marco, 25

  Lincoln, Abraham, 56

  linguistic kill shots, 25

  Loch Ness Monster, 221

  logic, 7, 11, 19, 41, 48–53, 71–79, 85–86, 96–98

  modal, 149–152

  Low-energy Jeb, 25

  luck, 51–52

  Lyin’ Ted, 25

  “Make America Great Again”

  (campaign slogan), 25, 28, 95

  male chauvinism, 106–111

  Malevich, Kazimir, 56

  management, 32, 37–39, 76, 89, 116, 120, 127, 130–36, 146, 152

  manager, 32, 37–39, 76, 120, 130, 132, 136, 146

  manga, 40

  manufacturing, 90–95

  market, 195

  marketing, 32–33, 47–48, 163, 179

  Marx, Karl H., 156, 195, 212

  Marxism, 156, 195, 212

  Master Persuader, 3–13, 15–23, 26, 53–54, 89, 174, 176, 185

  The Matrix (movie), 110, 202, 211–15

  McCain, John, 22, 88

  meaning, 11, 32, 42–44, 82, 114, 116, 128–29, 152–160, 162–65, 175, 195, 217–220

  Meinong, Alexius, 152

  Meinongianism, 152–53

  Melville, Herman, 56

  men’s rights movement, 103–111

  metaphysics, 134, 136, 147–154, 208

  Metaphysics (Aristotle), 149

  Microsoft, 60, 65

  Mill, John Stuart, 119–121

  moist robots, 10, 12, 170, 177–78, 183

  Morpheus (Matrix character), 211–15

  MSNBC, 89

  Muslim ban, 18, 85, 95

  My Job, My Self (Gini), 159

  The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus), 129

  The Myth of the Closed Mind (Percival), 99, 174

  NAFTA, 91

  necessity, 144, 153

  Neo (Matrix character), 211–15

  Newton, Isaac, 176

  Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 51, 138

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 129

  Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 83

  Nussbaum, Martha, 122

  Obama, Barack, 20, 31, 62, 83, 85, 88, 91–95, 99

  Obamacare, 92

  Ockham, William of, 55–64, 76

  Ockham’s [or Occam’s] Razor, 76

  off-shoring, 93–94

  On the Concept of Irony (Kierkegaard), 42

  Orwell, George, 28

  The Outsider [or The Stranger] (Camus), 128

  parsimony, principle of, 75

  Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 178–79

  Peanuts, x

  Percival, Ray Scott, 99, 169–183

  persuasion, 4–13, 15–25, 53–54, 78, 80, 81, 89, 94–99, 169, 194

  Phil, 64

  Pickering, Keith, 187

  Plato, 6–8, 10, 22, 114–15, 156, 200

  Pocahontas (Elizabeth Warren), 25

  Pointy-Haired Boss, 47, 57–59, 64–66, 71, 119–120, 123–24, 127, 133–34, 158, 160–61, 165, 197

  Popper, Karl R., 97–98, 179–191

  possible worlds, 149–153

  The Postman (character in God’s Debris), 199–208

  PowerPoint, 55–67

  Pow Wow Chow (Native American Cookbook), 26

  Predictably Irrational (Ariely), 170

  predictive success, 22–23, 97–98, 190

  Pre-Suasion (Cialdini), 179

  Putin, Vladimir, 30, 62–63

  rational, humans as, 11–13, 22–23, 53–54, 71–72, 86, 96–99, 105, 109, 115, 129–136, 141, 144, 163, 169–176, 177–183, 187

  rationalism, 180–81, 187–196

  red pill, 211–15

  Reinhart and Rogoff controversy, 74–75, 78

  Republican Party, ix–x, 4, 21, 26, 85, 98

  reshoring, 93–94

  rhetoric, 3–13, 98, 105, 111, 222

  rhetorosphere, 26

  Rivera, Julietta (cartoonist), 102–03

  robots, 10–12, 156, 160, 165, 170, 177–78, 183, 218

  ruling class, 43, 72, 94, 115

  Rust Belt, 31, 89–95

  Sanders, Bernie, xi, 4, 94–95

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 140

  satire, 37–40, 47, 160

  science, 4, 11, 49, 57, 72–76, 122, 170, 180, 186–192, 195–97, 203–09, 221

  scientific method, 186–192, 195–97, 203–09, 221

  The Scientist in the Crib (Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl), 177

  The Second Sex (Beauvoir), 102

  Selz. Otto, 179

  sexual harassment, 102

  Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (Allen and Parnes), 225

  simulation, living in a, 211–15

  Socrates, 3–11, 41–45, 51, 199–200

  sophists, 3, 6–13, 54, 192

  Soviet Union, 61–62

  Spicer, Sean, 83

  spin, political, 59–60

  Stein, Jill, 94

  stereotype, 78, 109–110, 127

  Stoics, 182

  Strauss, Leo, 43

  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 4

  stupidity, 57, 62–67, 116, 127, 141–42, 170, 185–197

  surplus-value, 212

  Sway (Brafman and Brafman), 170–71

  talent stack, x, 20–21

  tariffs, 89, 92

  Tax Cuts and Jobs Bill, 89

  Ted, 120–23

  Terkel, Studs, 155

  Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahnemann), 170–74

  Tina, 101, 112, 123, 158, 162

  Todd, Chuck, 83, 227

  Tricks of the Mind (Brown), 5

  Trinity (Matrix character), 211–15

  Trump, Donald J., ix–xi, 3–5, 10–13, 15–23, 25–33, 53–54, 62–65, 79–80, 81–99, 160, 171, 177, 215

  truth, 7–9, 19, 30, 38–54, 63–6, 83, 94, 97, 137–140, 145, 149, 160, 170, 176, 180, 187–89, 204–09

  Twitter, 60–62, 65–67, 189

  unconscious, 29, 78–79, 90, 169–174, 181, 205–07, 213–223

  The US Manufacturing Renaissance, 93

  veterans, 92

  Wally, 48, 58–59, 64, 120–23, 127, 132–33, 155–57, 165

  Warren, Elizabeth,
25–26

  Watergate, 16

  Weaver, Richard, 9

  Wesleyan Media Project, 90, 94

  What Computers Still Can’t Do (Dreyfus), 219

  Whipping Star (Herbert), 221

  white-collar workplace, 37–45, 157

  White House, 32, 88

  Wilson, Thomas, 9

  Win Bigly (Adams), xii, 4–5, 11, 15, 18, 25, 28, 53, 78–80, 84, 89, 96, 169, 171, 181, 211, 216

  winning, 4, 16–17, 51–52, 127, 194

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 188–190

  The Woman in the Red Dress (Matrix character), 211–15

  women’s issues, 101–112

  working, 155–165

  workplace, 37–45, 124, 130–33, 160, 165

  Yeltsin, Boris, 62

  YouTube, 189

 

 

 


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